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Tallahassee Yoga Shooter Was A Far-Right Misogynist Who Railed Against Women And Minorities Online — Scott Beierle shot two women at a Florida yoga studio on Friday night. He posted a series of videos and songs online and appeared to identify as an “involuntarily celibate.”
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CBS News, Talking Points Memo, Associated Press, Tallahassee Democrat, Daily Kos, Jezebel and New York Post
Washington Post:
Amazon is in advanced talks about putting second headquarters in Northern Virginia, those close to process say — Amazon.com has held advanced discussions about the possibility of opening its highly sought-after second headquarters in Crystal City, including how quickly it would move employees there …
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Boston Business Journal, CNBC, KTVQ-TV, Engadget, The Verge, Mashable and WTOP, more at Techmeme »
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Osita Nwanevu / New Yorker:
If Jeff Bezos Makes Washington the Second Headquarters of Amazon — On October 21, 2016, an entity called the Cherry Revocable Trust purchased two adjacent buildings in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, D.C., for twenty-three million dollars. The buildings, which previously had housed …
Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Racist robocall targets Stacey Abrams, Oprah in Georgia governor's race — Washington (CNN)A white supremacist group that targeted Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum with racist robocalls is now targeting Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.
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BuzzFeed News, ThinkProgress and Splinter
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Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
Judge rules against Brian Kemp over Georgia voting restrictions days before gubernatorial election
Judge rules against Brian Kemp over Georgia voting restrictions days before gubernatorial election
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USA Today, Daily Caller News Foundation, theGrio, The Guardian and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Emily Jashinsky / The Federalist:
5 Excerpts From Democrat Stacey Abrams's Hilarious Romance Novels
5 Excerpts From Democrat Stacey Abrams's Hilarious Romance Novels
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The Daily Caller
Luke Rosiak / The Daily Caller:
NYC Synagogue Vandalism Suspect Is Former City Hall Anti-Hate Crime Intern — The suspect in a synagogue vandalism act that forced the cancellation of a Democratic event is reportedly a former City Hall employee who worked on anti-hate crime issues and is a Democratic activist, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.
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twitchy.com, Geller Report, Liberty Unyielding, CBS New York, Talking Points Memo, abc7ny.com and New York Times
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Janet Reitman / New York Times:
U.S. Law Enforcement Failed to See the Threat of White Nationalism. Now They Don't Know How to Stop It. — For two decades, domestic counterterrorism strategy has ignored the rising danger of far-right extremism. In the atmosphere of willful indifference, a virulent movement has grown and metastasized.
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The Crime Report and Law & Crime
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Why Aren't Democrats Walking Away With the Midterms? — Democrats miss Trump's political gifts and the real threat he represents. — The night Donald Trump was elected was supposed to be, for most liberals and a few conservatives, the beginning of the end of the world. The economy would surely implode.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, No More Mister Nice Blog, Althouse and Wall Street Journal
Caleb Parke / Fox News:
Gillum intern arrested in Florida for throwing chocolate milk at College Republicans — An intern for Democratic Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum has been arrested and charged with battery after she threw chocolate milk on a group of College Republicans tabling on campus.
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Hullabaloo and The Gateway Pundit
Zeeshan Aleem / Vox:
Obama tends to hold back. But he's getting aggressive for the midterms. — He slammed Trump for “constant fear-mongering” at a fiery campaign rally in Florida Friday. — Former president Barack Obama and his successor Donald Trump went head to head in dueling rallies on Friday …
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Breitbart, Politico, Business Insider, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and IJR
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Jason Hancock / Kansas City Star:
Hawley won't answer questions about private emails; calls Star report ‘absurd’ — COLUMBIA — Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Josh Hawley declined on Saturday to clarify why his government staff used their personal email addresses to organize meetings with campaign consultants …
New York Times:
House and Senate Latest, Obama Asks a Question, Beto Video: 3 Days to Go — Welcome to The Tip Sheet, a daily political analysis of the 2018 elections, based on interviews with Republican and Democratic officials, pollsters, strategists and voters. — Where things stand
Paul Sonne / Washington Post:
Trump's border deployments could cost $200 million by year-end — The total price of President Trump's military deployment to the border, including the cost of National Guard forces that have been there since April, could climb well above $200 million by the end of 2018 and grow significantly …
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Vox, Axios, Splinter, Military Times, The Week, Defense One, NPR and BuzzFeed News
John Harwood / CNBC:
Republicans are spreading two types of fear ahead of next week's midterm elections — The upstairs-downstairs split within the Republican coalition requires more than hype about imagined threats of “invasion” from a bedraggled immigrant caravan. GOP strategy involves two distinctly different kinds of fear.
Derick Waller / abc7ny.com:
Arrest made after hate graffiti found written inside Brooklyn synagogue — Police have made an arrest after disturbing messages of hate were found inside a Brooklyn synagogue Thursday evening, the latest in a string of anti-Semitic incidents across the nation.
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Brooklyn Daily Eagle, ThinkProgress and Raw Story
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Drama builds around Stone in Mueller probe — Robert Mueller continues to zero in on Roger Stone as speculation builds that the special counsel could take a major overt step in his Russia investigation following the midterm elections next week. — Stone, a longtime adviser to President Trump …
New York Times:
A Nation in Turmoil Prepares to Deliver a Verdict on Trump — The tumultuous 2018 midterm campaign, shaped by conflicts over race and identity and punctuated by tragedy, barreled through its final weekend as voters prepared to deliver a verdict on the first half of President Trump's term …
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PJ Media Home and CNBC
BBC:
Asia Bibi: Deal to end Pakistan protests over blasphemy case — Pakistan's authorities have struck a deal with a hard-line Islamist party to end a protest over the acquittal of a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy. — As part of the deal, proceedings will begin to bar Asia Bibi from leaving the country.
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Geller Report and Jihad Watch
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
The 14th Amendment Does Not Mandate Birthright Citizenship — It was about removing vestiges of slavery, not regulating aliens. — Shortly after the Constitution went into effect, the first Congress enacted a naturalization law. Lawmakers superseded this statute just five years later.
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Constitution Daily and The Guardian
Joel Ebert / The Tennessean:
Two new polls show Marsha Blackburn, Phil Bredesen in a dead heat in Senate race — A look at the several polls detailing the race of Marsha Blackburn and Phil Bredesen for U.S. Senate — Despite a series of recent polls saying otherwise, two surveys see Tennessee's U.S. Senate race between …
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Politico:
New Jersey Democrats sound alarm over Menendez race — New Jersey Democrats are growing increasingly worried that Sen. Bob Menendez could lose his seat next week in an outcome that would undercut the party's effort to take back the Senate. — Democratic strategists working on races across …
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Mother Jones and Political Wire
Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal:
Why Are People Fleeing Central America? A New Breed of Gangs Is Taking Over. — Gangs such as MS-13 and Barrio 18 prey on their own neighborhoods in a violent, chaotic model spreading through the region — APOPA, El Salvador—The Congress of El Salvador agreed in April to extend …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP super PAC rushes to save Alaska's Don Young from defeat — A super PAC aligned with House Republican leadership is mounting a surprise final-weekend effort to save Alaska Rep. Don Young from defeat on Tuesday. — On Saturday, Congressional Leadership Fund will launch a phone-based …
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Raw Story
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
We have no excuses now. Our eyes are wide open. — This time, our eyes are wide open. — Exactly two years ago, many Americans held their noses and voted for Donald Trump. Some were conservatives willing to tolerate his vulgar excesses in hopes of getting tax cuts, a repeal of Obamacare and a friendlier judiciary.
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Hullabaloo and Arizona Republic
Sharon LaFraniere / New York Times:
Judge Orders Evidence to Be Gathered in Emoluments Case Against Trump — WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Maryland on Friday ordered evidence-gathering to begin in a lawsuit accusing President Trump of violating the Constitution by maintaining a financial interest in his company's Washington hotel.
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The Week and Washington Post
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Steve King, for a Change, Faces a Battle for House Seat in Iowa — DES MOINES — Representative Steve King, the polarizing Republican from rural Iowa given to incendiary racial remarks, was expecting to glide to an easy victory next week, like all of his previous eight races.
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Washington Post and Outside the Beltway
Page Six:
Alec Baldwin released from police custody after parking spot punch … Alec Baldwin didn't say a word as he was released from custody with a summons for assault and harassment over his Friday afternoon attack on a rival for a parking spot, cops said. — Baldwin, wearing a grim scowl and an untucked …
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Althouse, New York Daily News, twitchy.com and IJR
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Trump administration appears in no hurry to judge Saudi Arabia for Khashoggi killing — The Trump administration is waiting to see the results of a Saudi investigation into the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, according to U.S. officials, and appears in no hurry to decide whether and how to punish Saudi Arabia.
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New York Times and Washington Free Beacon
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Yaron Steinbuch / New York Post:
Netanyahu: Saudi Arabia deserves a pass for Khashoggi murder